Ideal for Byrne, Frawley and Byrne Junior...big boost post the Carbery mess !! Well done to all involved with this, Leo I assume was a major part of this decision if not all of it !! Can't praise his careful Mgmt enough since he has bedded in, Lancaster, a double and now this....a wise head carefully steering the blue machine.

No, but AFAIK they were the form team in the soup winning 6 on the trot and playing nice rugby. The implosion of the pumas under Hourcade came as a bit of a shock. Think Ledesma(currently head coach of the Jags) is taking over for the RC. Which is odd if there's an opening at the Jags. Maybe it was felt he needed to prove himself some where else.

harblstuff wrote:Ross Byrne must be delighted he's the one to play in Leinster

This. Exactly, he mentored Sexton through very nicely, he will be an excellent hands on coach with Byrne I'd imagine, as well as having Sexton to learn off week in week out.

I'd still love to know all the promises made to Carbery to get him to move, a start in Australia was clearly one, I'm sure many more, but again, another Leinster player codded by Munster and will go there for their career to die. When a club is desperate to sign you because the 3 or 4 young 10s they have in their squad haven't progressed at all, you should be wary of going to an amateur organization. Byrne will be miles ahead of him by the world cup.

Excited to see Dr. Phil back. Always a fan of keeping legends around the club as much as is possible and reasonable.

jezzer wrote:He will never be the second coming of BOD, because the only thing their game shares is probably the appetite for work around the pitch. He'll hopefully be the first coming of Ringrose.

Eh lads, Philipe was primarily a great centre and a reasonable OH.I'll be more than interested to hear what exactly his role is and what his professional coaching qualifications, as a coach, are.I just don't want us to become a coaching academy for Argentina.Ask not what we can do for Felipe but what can Felipe do for Leinster.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall who's the greatest player of them all? It is Drico your majesty.